KVM

[skwawks]

I'm thinking of maximising the space in my very small music room and getting a kvm switch to combine my everyday machine and my scope machine and ditching monitors keyboard mouse for this machine . Is anybody using kvm and is the emulation they talk about so both comps see the peripherals whether they're on or not worth having ?

[astroman]

I have a D-Link with 4 channels (PS/2,VGA) - couldn't live without
#1 and #2 are Scope and my developement/internet PC (no big deal as it's WinXP and Win2K)
#3 is a Mac Mini, who receives the PS/2 keyboard mouse signals via an USB converter
this one takes a few seconds switching latency, but otherwise it's perfectly ok - except the obvious keyboard differences
#4 is spare for whatever comes along

it's easy to handle - double type on a special function key then add the number of the desired channel and it switches
the only (occasional) inconvenience is that the Mac doesn't remember the screen resolution when returning from energy saving mode, which seems to be an Apple 'feature' (known from > 15 years old gear)

cheers, Tom

[skwawks]

Thanks ..I guess I'm going there then
Love those "special features" you learn as you go along

[astroman]

sorry I forgot
seems there's a lot of that stuff in 19" on eBay (Compaq 19" KVM Switch)
the cables are pretty expensive, so it's worth cheecking that a full set is included

cheers, Tom

[dawman]

I have a 1U 19" 4 x PORT PS/2 w/ USB adapters that I have 180 USD invested into. It is being replaced w/ a new one w/o KVM capabilities, as I only kept this around for it's beauty.

It worked well when I used a couple of DAW's live very well the year before.

25 bucks and shipping and it's yours. It is password required and set at 00000000 default.

[skwawks]

I've only just (yesterday ) ordered a d-link kvm121 Jimmy . It's hot switchable and ps2 vga . Thank you very much for the offer ,it's very kind of you, but , I'm sorted now ...as far as kvm anyway You're a beauty Jimmy